116 tBRONZIJVI ,; I . ..' , J" ,', ..... fo';' dress black or midnight with white 6.50 o "split-end" bow tie- . . ends slashed with contrasting color, . . new and different! '. , """'find nou' af"JistingUislwd stores '!'!". v,,-. , .. " . -.:- ; !If j c' " v .. ,/ /" .:\-', , ,. ".::j'j { , ' , l ' f' navy, tobacco, garnet, charcoal, dark green, grey green with related BRONZINI prints..........4.50 the flight line calls us back. I should, too, but I'm too keyed up. I really called to ask her, to beg her for the last time to just go off alone with me and get mar- ried. I'm too keyed up to be with people. I feel as though I'm about to be born. Sacred, sacred day. The connection was so bad, and I couldn't talk at all during ,... most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back 'What? ' I've been reading a miscellany of Vedanta all day, "'í JVlarriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen " each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly, and f with detachment. A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected- never possessed, since he belongs to God, How wonderful, how sane, how beauti- fully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility for the first time in my life. Oppenheim is already in the sack. I should be, too, but I can't. Some- one must sit up with the happy man." I read the entry through just once, then closed the diary and brought it back to the bedroom with me. I dropped it into Seymour's canvas bag, on the window seat. Then I fell, more or less deliberately, on the nearer of the two beds. I was asleep-or, possibly, out cold-before I landed, or so it seemed. When I wakened, about an hour and a half later, I had a splitting headache and a parched mouth. The room was all but dark. I remember sitting for rather a long time on the edge of the bed. Then, in the cause of a great thirst, I got up and gravitated slowly toward the living room, hoping there were still some cold and wet remnants in the pitcher on the coffee table. My last guest had evidently let him- self out of the apartment. Only his empty glass, and his cigar end in the pewter ashtray, indicated that he had ever existed. I still rather think his cigar end should have been forwarded on to Seymour, the usual run of wedding gifts being what it is. Just the cigar, in a small, nice box, Possibly with a blank sheet of paper enclosed, by way of ex- planation. - J. D. SALINGER .' " ONLY 7 HOPPING DAYS TILL ANGAROO! You don't know what it means to a middle-aged World Airline (35 on Nov. 16, but everyone says we look younger) to get thousands and thousands of glorious entries. One had a check attached for a round- trip to Australia via Qantas* ($975, tourist class. For $1215 he could A ",' ,:' ..Ä..,." ..{. .-- J[[J *Pronounce the Q as in Quid pro quo. What other airline makes bilingual and bimonetary puns? Name one. have gone Connoisseur - not that we're complaining. And he may have a point at that, $240 isn't hay.) Anyway, next week we will an- nounce the winners in our sensa- tional Qantas Super Constellation naming contest, so get your copy early. You know how it is. J'f' .-_______a__ "P ........ . .. -.....--..... QANTAJ AUSTRALIA'S OVERSEAS AIRLINE . \V ASHIXGTOX, Oct, 13-Stanley Rut- tenberg will head the department of re- search of the combined American Federa- tion of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations when the merger takes place Dec. 5. Unity committees of the two organiza- tions have agreed on several other appoint- ments in connection with the merger, officials said today. Mr. Ruttenberg is no C.I.O. director of research and education. -The Times. Just give the news, please.